Flavor Flav Opens New Restaurant in Metro Detroit

Is the third time the charm? That's what rapper turned restaurateur Flavor Flav is hoping as he attempts to open his third eatery, Flav's Chicken & Ribs in Sterling Heights, Michigan, in metro Detroit.

In 2011, the former VH1 reality star and musician partnered with entrepreneur Nick Cimino to open his eponymous restaurant in, of all places, Clinton, Iowa. A short time later, TMZ reported that staff members' paychecks bounced, and Flav removed his name from the project. He also told TMZ that he wasn't satisfied with the food. "Let me be straight up with you, I went up inside there on April 2 and I found potato salad that expired on February 28. And it's then when I realized I can't do business with this man and I really hope no one ate those potatoes," he told the news organization.

But that didn't stop the clock-wearing Flav. He went on to open a soul food restaurant, Flavor Flav's House of Flavor, in March 2012 in Las Vegas. That too shuttered the following September despite his attempts to promote the fried chicken and waffles on a Southwest airlines flight from Burbank to Vegas by ambushing the intercom system.

Posted by Kiri Tannenbaum

Kiri Tannenbaum is a contributing editor at Delish. Her love of food was sparked by an extended stay in Florence, Italy, where she assisted in the kitchen, shaving bittersweet chocolate over creamy, homemade tiramisu. Though she has no Italian blood in her lineage, Kiri always makes her sauce from scratch and hopes one day to adopt an Italian grandmother. Read More

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